Last week, Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, ruled that his state’s probate judges must enforce Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Moore, who first rose to national fame for his crusade to publicly display a mammoth Ten Commandments memorial, is fighting a losing battle. The Supreme Court ruling from Summer 2015 is the law of the land. But Moore’s act, like the giant stone monument he championed, has symbolic heft. It is a little like the House of Representatives’ repeated, quixotic attempts to repeal Obamacare—a lost cause, perhaps, but one the resonates profoundly with the conservative faithful in Alabama and around the country.
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